Baldassare Peruzzi
Baldassare Peruzzi | |
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Born | Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi 7 March 1481 |
Died | 6 January 1536 | (aged 54)
Nationality | Italian |
Known for | Painting, Architecture |
Notable work | Decoration of Villa Farnesina Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne |
Movement | High Renaissance Mannerism |
Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481 – 6 January 1536) was an Italian
He was a painter of frescoes in the Cappella San Giovanni (Chapel of St John the Baptist) in the
His son
Design and decoration of Villa Farnesina
Almost all art critics ascribe the design of the Villa Chigi in Rome, now known more commonly as the
Other work
Peruzzi had produced a mosaic ceiling for the church of
His final architectural masterpiece, the Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne (1535) located now on the 19th-century Corso Vittorio Emanuele, is well known for its curving facade, ingenious planning, and architecturally rich interior. The exterior details display a Mannerist-style.
He left drawings to a pupil, Sebastiano Serlio, who used them in several of his Books of Architecture, published in Venice beginning in the early 1530s.[6]
References
- ^ Wolfgang Lotz and Deborah Howard, Architecture In Italy 1500-1600 (New Haven, Yale Univ. Press: 1995): 1-98.
- ^ The History of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Graving, and of Those who have Excelled in them, Book III, by P. Monier, pages 139-141.
- ^ Memorie dei più insigni pittori, scultori e architetti Dominicani, Volume 1, by P. Vincenzo Marchese, pages 337-337.
- ^ Ann C. Hupert, Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy: Art, Science and the Career of Baldassare Peruzzi (New Haven, Yale University Press: 2015)
- ^ The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, 1502-1503: Baldassare Peruzzi (Italian, 1481-1573):Tempura and Oil on panel, transferred to masonite:Diameter: 24 ½ in. (62.2 cm), CLASSROOM RESOURCE SHEET, Allen Memorial Art Museum
- ^ Sebastiano Serlio, Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture: Books I-V of Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva, trans. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks (New Haven, Yale Univ. Press: 1996).
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gietmann, Gerhard (1911). "Baldassare Peruzzi". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
External links
- Web Gallery of Art: Perspective View of the Sala delle Prospettive
- The Catholic Encyclopedia:Baldassare Peruzzi
- Italian Paintings: Sienese and Central Italian Schools, a collection catalog containing information about Peruzzi and his works (see index; plates 86–107).